FIFTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Sess. III. Ch. 429. 1899. 1339 Sec. 468. That the liquor licenses authorized and provided for by TW ¤l¤¤¤¤· ·>f lithis Act shall be of two classes—wholesale liquor licenses and barroom : wl`°l°"`°"° hcenses. Every applicant for a liquor license shall deposit the amount of the license fee with the clerk of the court at the time of tiling his application for the license. If, upon consideration of the application for license by the court as provided for in this Act, the court should determine to grant the license prayed for, it shall notify the clerk and the applicant for such license in writing and the applicant shall thereupon receive his license. The fee for a wholesale license shall be two thousand dollars per annum and for a barroom or retail license in towns or settlements of one thousand ive hundred population or upward one thousand five hundred dollars per annum; in towns, camps, or settlements of more than one thousand and less than one thousand five hundred population, one thousand dollars per annum. In towns, camps, or settlements of less than one thousand population, five hundred dollars per annum: Provided, That the words towns, camps, or settlements as §~¤i•<•¤-__ herein used shall be construed to embrace the population within a m,.Q{°"" °°‘“’ °°' radius of two miles of the site of the place wherein business is to be done under the license. A retail or barroom license shall be required for every hotel, tavern, boat, barroom, or other place in which intoxicating liquors are sold by retail. A wholesale liquor license shall only authorize the licensee to sell distilled, malt, or fermented liquors, wines, and cordials in quantities not less than one gallon, not to be drunk upon the premises where sold; and no such license shall be granted until it is satisfactorily shown that the place where it is intended to carry on such business is properly arranged for selling such liquors as merchandise. Every place where distilled, malt, or fermented wines, liquors, or R-S-.¤¤¤·¤¤44.1»¤¤. cordials are sold in quantities as prescribed for retail dealers by section thirty-two hundred and forty-four, Revised Statutes of the United States, to be drunk upon the premises, shall be regarded as a barroom; and the possession of malt, distilled, fermented, or any intoxicating liquors, with the means and appliances for carrying on the business of dispensing the same to be drunk where sold, shall be prima facie evidence of a barroom within the meaning of this Act, and the license . therefor shall be known as a barroom license: Provided, That no license B¤11<1i¤z w1¤¤r¤¤¤1d- shall be granted for the sale of liquors at either wholesale or retail in any other than a substantial building which shall have cost for construction not less than five hundred dollars. Sec. 469. That every person receiving a license to sell under this Act phf·{·;f,¤·¤ m l>• <l*¤— shall frame it under glass and place it in a conspicuous place in his ° ` chief place of sale of such liquor, so that anyone entering such place of sale may easily read such license. Sec. 470. That all applicants for license and persons holding licenses r§;_¤l¤¤i¤·=i¤¤ of shall allow the clerk of the court, or any United States marshal or P °°°' ‘ deputy United States marshal, or any United States commissioner, full opportunity and every facility to examine at any time during business hours the premises where intoxicating liquor is sold, and for which a license has been asked or has been granted. Size. 471. That druggists and apothecaries shall not be required to _R,;¤m¤¤¤¤¤¤¤dmg obtain license under the provisions of this Act, but they shall not sell g"" ‘ intoxicating liquors, nor compound nor mix any composition thereof, except upon the written prescription of a reputable physician, nor more than once on any one prescription of the physician; and every druggist or apothecary shall keep a book for the special purpose, and enter -»¤¤¤1 umass. therein the date of every sale of intoxicating liquor made by him, the , person to whom sold, the kind, quantity, and price thereof, and purpose for which it was sold; and such book shall be at all times open to the inspection of the United States marshal or any deputy marshal, any United States commissioner, the collector of customs or any deputy collector of customs for the district of Alaska, and shall be produced when required; and any tailnre to comply with the provisions of this section shall render such druggist or apothecary so failing liab1e_t.o the same penalties as if he had sold intoxicating liquors without a license.
